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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2b, New Atlantis, a Work Unfinished (Conversation with Governor continued, Conversation with Joabim).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where were the sailors taken to be given medical treatment?
(a) Fathers House.
(b) Stranger's House.
(c) Salomon's House.
(d) Brethren House.

2. The work was presented in such a way that it was written in the native tongue for all but which group?
(a) Indians.
(b) Hebrews.
(c) Persians.
(d) Chinese.

3. Bacon states that people tend lean toward false and hasty ______.
(a) Conclusions.
(b) Beliefs.
(c) Decisions.
(d) Allies.

4. The first part of the work is to equip the intellect to do which of the following?
(a) Process information.
(b) Move forward.
(c) Question itself.
(d) Be rebuilt.

5. Bacon believed that common sense established _____ certain degrees of assurance.
(a) Questionably.
(b) Provisionally.
(c) Disjointed.
(d) Specific.

Short Answer Questions

1. Since the observer is ____, he must look to history for similar observations.

2. Bacon believes that the human mind easily misuses its ____ in many ways.

3. It is stated that the author believes that men tend to misunderstand their _____.

4. The fifth part includes things Bacon had discovered through the ordinary use of ______.

5. The only way out of ____ is to build a plan of inquiry.

(see the answer key)

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